IM, Contacts & Social hackfest
Cambridge, the 13th - 17th of June
Primary contact: Guillaume Desmottes <gdesmott@gnome.org>
Secondary contact: 
<not necessarily a Foundation member>
Relevant GNOME team
Empathy/Telepathy, Folks, libsocialweb, gnome-control-center, gnome-shell Design team
Description
The IM, Contacts, Social hackfest is a gathering of people working on IM/contacts oriented applications and frameworks.
Agenda, goals
- Improve the existing chat integration in gnome-shell
- Design and plan how we could improve the IM integration into the shell (calls, file transfers, invitations, presence, etc).
- Design and plan the integration of contacts into the Shell overview
- Design and plan the new Contact application
- Design and plan the web accounts pane (IM accounts, social services, single sign one)
- Discussion the need and design of a 'conversation' centric application
DanielleMadeley: Design a reusable contact chooser for applications (aka telepathy-gtk, folks-gtk, or whatever)
BastienNocera: pic.twitter.com support in libsocialweb, using GOA in libsocialweb
See Hackfests/IMContactsSocial2011/Tasks for a full list of tasks.
Measuring your success
One of the main goal of this hackfest is to allow people from different teams to met. So at the end of the hackfest each one should have a better understanding of the different technologies involved.
We'll have a list of action points for 3.2, each one having someone in charge of its success and a list of people who are going to contribute to it.
Attendants
Name |
Arrive |
Depart |
Confirmed |
Need room? |
Sponsor? |
Amount requested? |
Interest |
Guillaume Desmottes |
Monday (Eurostar) |
Friday (Eurostar) |
Yes |
No |
Collabora |
|
everything |
Travis Reitter |
June 11 |
June 18 |
Yes |
Yes |
Collabora |
|
Folks / Contacts app / Folks Shell integration |
Philip Withnall |
Local |
Local |
|
No |
No |
|
Contacts app/Web accounts pane/Folks |
Sjoerd Simons |
local |
local |
|
No |
No |
|
|
Will Thompson |
local |
local |
|
No |
No |
|
|
Raul Gutierrez Segales |
local |
local |
|
No |
No |
|
|
Alberto Mardegan |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hylke Bons |
local-ish |
|
beginning of the week |
Yes |
Red Hat |
|
|
Stef Walter |
June 12 (Stansted) |
June 19 (Rail) |
Yes |
Yes |
Collabora |
|
|
Bastien Nocera |
local-ish |
local-ish |
|
No |
Nope |
|
|
Rob Bradford |
local-ish |
local-ish |
Will be around Tuesday and Friday |
No |
Intel |
|
Social networking stuff |
Thursday morning |
Thursday evening or friday |
Mostly |
Probably not |
No |
|
Contacts and IM UX design |
|
local-ish |
local-ish |
Tuesday and Friday certainly, possibly more |
Maybe |
Intel |
|
|
|
Morten Mjelva |
Sunday |
Friday |
Yes |
Yes |
Needed |
Estimated €250 |
|
Sunday |
Week after hackfest |
Yes |
No |
Collabora |
|
|
|
Alexander Larsson |
Tuesday (late) |
Friday |
|
Yes |
Red Hat |
|
Contacts app / Folks |
Costs
This only cover the costs which have to be covered by the foundation as sponsoring (ie. not the costs directly paied by people's company)
- Morten's trip: ~ 250€
- Room for Morten and another (shared): £62.95 * 5 = £ 314.75
Current sponsors
- GNOME Foundation
How to get there
- Plane (Heathrow, Stansted, Gatwick) + train to Cambridge. Stansted is by far the easiest one as it's only 30 minutes from Cambridge.
- Eurostar (London) + train to Cambridge
Collabora's office is just next to the station.
Kett House Station Road Cambridge CB1 2JH United Kingdom
Accommodation and food
Hotel: Cambridge Travelodge : £62.95 for a family room (double and a twin sofa bed)
- There is a canteen at the office for lunch